CFP Nº25 (2027)

Issue 25 Latente Journal (2027)

MONOGRAPHIC: Fictions for a Possible Hope. Speculative Visual Languages of Power, Pain, and History. 

Coordinated by María Gómez López (UAM) and Inés Plasencia Camps (UAM).

Speculative fiction has been studied for several decades, particularly within the fields of art history, film, and literature, as a strategy for reflecting on the past, but especially for projecting imaginary futures through which we might inhabit a livable present. Hence, many of these practices, such as Afrofuturism, Arabfuturism, Queer Futurism, and Crip Futurism, among others, are oriented towards imagining scenarios and spaces of liberation through fiction as a fundamental strategy. The possibilities of fiction also translate aspects of history that transcend facts and data, incorporating informal memory and testimony as principles that articulate belonging. Thus, beyond futuristic creations, fiction is also a strategy that intervenes in the interpretation of history, its relationship with structures of power, and affects such as grief and fear. Fantasy, in this context, is understood as intrinsic to life, enabling us to integrate experience into a collective fabric.

Fiction can therefore be understood as a method, but above all as a way of relating to reality, behind which lies a genealogy of hope and resistance that is particularly urgent today. For this special issue, we invite contributions on the use of fiction, imagination, or myths in photography, film, and video art as ways of integrating aspects that are difficult to process or express through other means, whether due to the absence of language or the panic and pain inscribed in our bodies.

In particular, we welcome anti-colonial, transfeminist, anti-ableist, and queer research addressing preferably contemporary or transtemporal artistic practices, from any geographical context.

MISCELLANY: Latente continues to receive articles on various topics related to the history and aesthetics of cinema, photography, comics, and visual culture in general for this and future issues.

DOCUMENTS: Latente also publishes previously unpublished documents that constitute primary sources for research in visual culture, comics, cinema, and photography.

INTERVIEWS: Latente publishes original interviews with professionals from the worlds of cinema, photography, comics, and visual culture.

REVIEWS: Latente also accepts book reviews focused on the journal’s usual themes. For the 2027 issue, reviews of books published from 2024 onward are accepted.

Full articles must have between 6,000 and 20,000 words and follow the style guidelines indicated on the journal’s website. The deadline for submission of articles — for the monograph, micellany, reviews, and other documents — will be January 10, 2027.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

 

Latente Editorial Board
University of La Laguna